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He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has bidden me."

Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,

rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.

Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not every one of you."

When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.

I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus;

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I go to the Father'?"

His disciples said, "Ah, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure!

The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, every man to his home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,